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Forever Fractals

Monday, October 18, 2010

R.I.P. Benoît Mandelbrot, and thanks for the trip.

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Big in Japan

Sunday, September 19, 2010

If you can’t go to Japan right now but are still looking for a Japanese moment, then you could consider heading for Berlin-Marzahn and find your way into the ‘Gardens of the World’ to become completely captured by the autumnal light making your eyes dance in the beauty of shades, shapes and colours.

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CONSIDER THE DEVIL

Saturday, August 28, 2010

This was my favourite poster to appear during the recent Federal Election in Australia.  This poster appeared throughout the streets of Hobart, Tasmania on Election Day last Saturday. It’s a clever play on words when you consider the ‘evil’ of some politics alongside how endangered the iconic Tasmanian devil has become. And the winner of [...]

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THE NORTH CIRCULAR

Thursday, July 15, 2010

“Knitted by grannies, supported by supermodels”, this is The North Circular motto. Katherine Poulton, Alice Shelby, Isobel Davies and super model Lily Cole have joined forces to create a knitwear collection. Scarves, mittens, collars and other accessories are knitted by grannies using the wool of rare sheep from Wensleydale in England.
“We wanted to return value [...]

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EVOLVED GARDENING

Friday, May 21, 2010

It really comes with little surprise that it took an antipodean to turn the world of indoor plants upside down and on its head.  With New Zealand-born Patrick Morris’ awarding winning Boskke Skyplanter you can now harvest your ceiling.  And not only is this fabulous planter saving you floor space, it will also reduce your [...]

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RUMMAGING THROUGH THE LIFE SCIENCES

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

For Sissel Tolaas there are not ‘good’ or ‘bad’ smells. She sees smell as information, or a tool of navigation and communication. Several contemporary artists decided to put nature on a different level of perception too. While most people feel disgusted by a crawling cockroach, a picture of a human skull made out of shiny [...]

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HAPPY EASTER

Sunday, April 4, 2010
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TEMPELHOF, THE LATE DAYS

Thursday, March 18, 2010

And speaking of mountains in Berlin, we’re still devastated by the Berlin Senate’s refusal to consider architect Jacob Tigges’ proposal on erecting a mountain on the vast landing strip of historic Tempelhof airport, which was closed down in 2008. The area lies in the center of Berlin and it is still undecided what the city [...]

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